Beyond the domain, inside a small flying vessel.
The flying vessel was very plain, though only its furnishings were plain. In truth, its performance was terrifying, having already reached the peak of a fifth-rank Dharma treasure—the very limit Demon Prince could command.
He could not command a fourth-rank Dharma treasure. Even though a fourth-rank Dharma treasure could break through the Heavenly Way Limit, Demon Prince himself still could not. If a fourth-rank Dharma treasure carried him in flight, he would die. He still needed time to slowly adapt.
That was right—adapt.
Demon Prince had already fully understood the power of the fourth rank and made every preparation for his own advancement. But given the nature of his demonic path, he still needed to slowly alter his "conceptions."
For the demonic path, that required sufficient mental preparation to transform one's subjective conceptions.
It was difficult. Much like how everyone knew of the wave-particle duality of particles, and knew that matter itself was all "waves," while at the same time possessing stable properties on the macroscopic scale.
Yet people still found it difficult to grow accustomed to perceiving matter as a kind of wave. In everyday life, they would even unconsciously disregard matter's attribute as a "wave," treating it directly as a stable particle state.
This was the case where one possessed the knowledge, but one's "conceptions" had not changed.
The demonic path depended heavily on the cognition of subjective will. Thus, even though Demon Prince had already recognized some clues of the fourth rank, he still could not truly overturn his ingrained understanding of the world.
After all, this ingrained understanding had accumulated little by little over many years. He might need just as long to change this "habit."
After all, not everyone could break through with effortless ease. For the